Toronto's Best

eye readers choice awards 2003

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BEST FILMMAKER

ATOM EGOYAN

Don McKellar

BEST FIRST-RUN CINEMA

FAMOUS PLAYERS

PARAMOUNT
259 Richmond W, 416-368-5600

Varsity
2nd Floor, Manulife Centre, Bloor & Bay, 416-964-2463

BEST REPERTORY CINEMA

BLOOR CINEMA
506 Bloor W, 416-516-2331

The Royal
608 College, 416-516-4845

BEST THEATRE

TARRAGON
30 Bridgman, 416-531-1827

Buddies in Bad Times
12 Alexander, 416-975-8555

Canon
244 Victoria, 416-364-4100

BEST THEATRE COMPANY

SOULPEPPER

Mirvish Productions

BEST PLAYWRIGHT

JASON SHERMAN

Adam Pettle

Sky Gilbert

BEST ACTOR

SARAH POLLEY

Mike Myers

BEST DANCE COMPANY

PARAHUMANS DANCE

National Ballet

BEST COMEDY VENUE

YUKYUKS
2335 Yonge, 416-967-6431

Second City
56 Blue Jays Way, 416-343-0011

BEST AUTHOR

MARGARET ATWOOD

Ann Marie MacDonald

BEST PLACE TO HEAR A LITERARY READING

HARBOURFRONT CENTRE
235 Queens Quay W, 416-973-3000

Victory Café
581 Markham St, 416-516-5787

BEST VISUAL ARTIST

RAINE LILLIFELDT

SEAN YELLAND

TOMOLENNON

Chris Hutsul

BEST MAJOR GALLERY/MUSEUM

ART GALLERY OF ONTARIO
317 Dundas W 416-979-6660

ROM
100 Queen's Park, 416-586-8000

BEST SMALL GALLERY

KATHARINE MULHERIN CONTEMPORARY ART PROJECTS (see below)

A Space
401 Richmond W, ste 110. 416-979-9633

Sandra Ainsley
55 Mill, 416-214-9490

BEST TORONTO COMEDIAN

SEÁN CULLEN

Mike Myers

Russell Peters

BEST SMALL ART GALLERY

KATHARINE MULHERIN CONTEMPORARY ART PROJECTS

1040, 1080, 1086 Queen W. Wed-Sun, noon-5pm

She graduated from OCAD in May, 1998, and within five months, this former single mom on welfare -- and double major in art and curation -- had opened a gallery of her own, BUS, on Queen Street in Parkdale. (It got its name, she tells eye, from her first artist, Clint Griffen, getting tired of scraping letters off the window from its previous tenant, an accountant who apparently did "BUSiness taxes.") Eight months later, she opened another one. This one, a couple of blocks down, she called 1080BUS. Then her alma mater asked her for some curatorial help, which led to her third gallery, School BUS. As of January, her three Parkdale galleries, anchors of the West Queen West gallery district, were amalgamated under a single name: Katharine Mulherin Contemporary Art Projects. She started out showing emerging Toronto artists, but over five years and hundreds of shows, some of those have become established, like Eliza Griffiths, Michael Herrington, Nick Ostoff, Shary Boyle, Dana Holst, Griffen the letter scraper and Casey McGlynn, whose NOT REAL! (autobiographical works by Casey McGlynn) is on now. BERT ARCHER